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seydx / homebridge-fritz-platform

AiO Homebridge dynamic platform plugin for AVM hardware like Fritz!Box, Fritz!Repeater etc.
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Wifi Units 7590 AX #284

Closed solbadguy2010 closed 2 years ago

solbadguy2010 commented 2 years ago

Can you please explain where to get the correct value for „WifiUnits“? I guessed for my 540E one unit, for my 1750E two units and for my 3000 three units. But for my 7590 AX i do not know what to choose. It has Wifi 4,5 and 6, but set to three WifiUnits it crashes the Plugin. Two work, but i think it is wrong?

by the way, what does this value exactly?

Gummibando commented 2 years ago

2 is correct for the 7590ax. "WifiUnits" refers to the distinct WiFi units/WiFi bands of the device (WiFi 4, 5, 6 is "just" the WiFi standard). 7590ax has 2 units/bands, one for 2.4 GHz, one for 5 GHz. The Repeater 3000 has two 5 GHz bands in addition to the 2.4 GHz band, hence 3 total. (Reason: in wireless repeater mode, the 3000 would use one 5 GHz band to connect to the main Fritzbox, while 5 GHz client devices would connect to the other 5 GHz band.)

solbadguy2010 commented 2 years ago

@Gummibando Great! thank you! This helps me to understand this. Does the 1750E also have 3 Units?

and do you know wich effect a „wrong“ setting in the plugin has? Does this really change anything?

Gummibando commented 2 years ago

The 1750e is, IIRC, a dual-band repeater.

solbadguy2010 commented 2 years ago

@Gummibando Thank you! That helps. Do you know what happens when i configure „WifiUnits=2“ for the 3000 for example? Will that change something that matters?

Gummibando commented 2 years ago

You can expose the WiFi modules/band as a switch (enable/disable WiFi band) in HomeKit. If you set the number lower than the actual number of WiFi modules, I assume the additional WiFi band will not be available as a switch.